Media Through Time

The Hero Cycle: Parallels between Jack Sparrow and Odysseus

Call to ActionOdysseus

Is forced to fight in the Trojan War

Jack Sparrow

Will Turner asks him for help to save Elizabeth Swann, and he needs a new shiphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hn6FHh7NOA&feature=related

Preparation

Odysseus

Experience fighting in the Trojan War and outwitting the Trojans

Jack Sparrow

Getting a crew and a ship for

departure

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Allies

Odysseus

Gets a crew and endears himself to Athena

Jack Sparrow

Gets a crew and befriends Will Turner

Guardians of the ThresholdOdysseus

Beginning the voyage home

Jack Sparrow

Jack begins the journey to Isla de Muerta

Crossing the ThresholdOdysseus

The ship is blown off-course by the winds

Jack Sparrow

Jack and his crew reach the island

Road of TrialsOdysseus

Defeats the Cyclops, escapes the Lotus-eaters, Laistrygonians, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens, and tricks Circe

Jack Sparrow

Escapes the island on which he was marooned, tricks both Norrington and Barbossa

Saving ExperienceOdysseus

Enters the Underworld and learns how to reach home

Jack Sparrow

Kills Barbossa

Transforming Changes

Jack Sparrow

Shows that he genuinely cares for Will Turner when Jack saves him

Odysseus

Reaches Calypso’s island and cannot return home

The Return

Jack Sparrow

Escapes his hanging

Odysseus

Slaughters Penelope’s suitors

Sharing the Gift

Jack Sparrow

Shows the governor and Commodore Norrington that a pirate can be a good man

Odysseus

Settles the conflict with the suitors, is reunited with Penelope, rules well over Ithaca